Speaker Spotlight: Ryann Z. Elumba

Gone are the days of webpages that look like the classified ad portion of a newspaper or a high school test paper. The next star in the Speaker Spotlight series will help us make our blogs look better and be more interactive with more than the usual elements in a webpage.

Ryann Zandueta Elumba is a graduate of BS Computer Science and BS Computer Engineering at Western Mindanao State University. During his college years, he served different positions in various school organizations such as Editor of the University Digest and Vice President of the University Student Council. He brought recognition to the University when he was chosen as one of the finalist for the Jose Rizal Model Students of the Philippines.

He is a resource speaker to various national conferences such as the 1st Business Processing Outsourcing Conference and trainings by the National Computer Center. Last year, he was recognized by the Philippine Blog Awards when his blog HolaZamboanga.com was chosen as the Uniquely Mindanao Blog. The year before, one of his old blogs was included as finalist for the Best Technology Blog Category. He became the 1st representative of Mindanao in the Animation Council of the Philippines.

Just recently, he led the hosting of the 4th Mindanao Bloggers Summit in Zamboanga City, where eight members of the SOCCSKSARGEN Bloggers are witnesses to the highly successful MBS4, thanks to Ryann.

Most of his professional years were spent in the academe. Our speaker worked as an instructor in Ateneo de Zamboanga University and Western Mindanao State University. He was responsible in the introduction of the 1st Multimedia and Animation course in Mindanao. He served as consultant to several schools in Zamboanga Peninsula.

Currently, he is the Managing Director of Seed Interactive Multimedia Production – a top design, photography, video and animation studio in Zamboanga Peninsula.

Be at the BlogFest SOCCSKSARGEN 2010 and learn from Ryann on ‘Spicing Up Blogs with Animation and Video’!

Alexis is a Business Administration graduate from the Mindanao State University in General Santos City and blogs at http://alexischua.com. He was a former chief editor of his university's publication and is now spending time to discover the perfect job to jumpstart his career. Alexis has 39 post(s) on SOXBloggers.com.